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Fender Rumble Club

#8,661
Gee Phil said:
Hey Linnin,

I can't remember what kind of Rumble set up do you have.
Do you have a couple of Rumble 115 cabinets with the Rumble 500 head?
Or do you know anyone that has that kind of setup?
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I just got the 500 head this past Thursday - friggin amazing ! I sold my '71 Acoustic 370 due to never using it - weight , and just never play gigs big enough to warrant schlepping it .
I have had these cabs for about 13 years . Had them custom built . 2 Kappa pro 15LF's. The Rumble 500 into these cabs with my '68 P Bass with the vintage button engaged is Fender tone heaven !!!
 

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RC52 said:
I just got the 500 head this past Thursday - friggin amazing ! I sold my '71 Acoustic 370 due to never using it - weight , and just never play gigs big enough to warrant schlepping it .
I have had these cabs for about 13 years . Had them custom built . 2 Kappa pro 15LF's. The Rumble 500 into these cabs with my '68 P Bass with the vintage button engaged is Fender tone heaven !!!
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Looks like pure delight to me!:bassist:
:cool: Rumble On! :cool:
 
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RC52 said:
I just got the 500 head this past Thursday - friggin amazing ! I sold my '71 Acoustic 370 due to never using it - weight , and just never play gigs big enough to warrant schlepping it .
I have had these cabs for about 13 years . Had them custom built . 2 Kappa pro 15LF's. The Rumble 500 into these cabs with my '68 P Bass with the vintage button engaged is Fender tone heaven !!!
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This is the other half of the magic . Strung with LaBella flats .
 

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BumbleB said:
I searched, but can't seem to find a club for those of us who use and love the Fender Rumble series of amps. Any interest?

I've been playing at home with my Rumble 30 since late January and it seems to me like this amp puts out a good share for being so small! Originally I was looking at the Rumble 15 but went with the 30 because of the extra input jack, more wattage, and I read online reviews which said the 30 would be good enough to play with a band in a small venue even versus the 15 which didn't have as much bang.

Hope to hear form some fellow Rumble fans soon! :D

So this makes me the founding member, #1? I feel this is a big honor for someone so new on the forum!
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After injuring myself carting my 78 pound Ashdown combo up and down stairs of various venues, I recently bought a Rumble 500 combo. How can something so light be so loud? I used my 15 inch extension cab last with it last week for an outdoor xmas event and made my body vibrate with the power it produced. Please put me down as a member of the Rumble Club and give me a number. Thanks!
 
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subsonicgroover said:
After injuring myself carting my 78 pound Ashdown combo up and down stairs of various venues, I recently bought a Rumble 500 combo. How can something so light be so loud? I used my 15 inch extension cab last with it last week for an outdoor xmas event and made my body vibrate with the power it produced. Please put me down as a member of the Rumble Club and give me a number. Thanks!
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Welcome to the Fender Rumble Club, subsonicgroover! :woot:
You are member #557 :hyper: If you haven't already, run a search for the links to various 'Rumble Talks' which contain a ton of inside information. Also check out our 'Tone Pool'. :bassist:
:cool: Rumble On! :cool:
 
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I spent some more time with the 100 and 200 combos at the Guitar Shack this afternoon, and I felt like the 12" 100 combo was a sound I liked better. Sure, this was in a terrible situation to critically evaluate things, but I thought it cut through the din of many out of tune guitars making racket better.

Now, would the 500 combo with two 10's be closer in sound to the 100 or 200, given that the tone stack is the same in all of them? I was both surprisingly impressed with the 100 as much as I was disappointed by the 200. I would step all the way up to the 2x10 if it had a similar punchy sound from the speakers. I have GAS that I will need to quench in the new year!

For what it's worth, I played the Ampeg BA series competitors, and while I very much enjoy the Ampeg sound, these did not do it all that well.
 
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Bufalo said:
Now, would the 500 combo with two 10's be closer in sound to the 100 or 200, given that the tone stack is the same in all of them? I was both surprisingly impressed with the 100 as much as I was disappointed by the 200. I would step all the way up to the 2x10 if it had a similar punchy sound from the speakers. I have GAS that I will need to quench in the new year!
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It sounds like you have been smitten by seductive sound quality of the Eminence 12" woofer. My recommendation would be to get a Rumble 500 head and a pair of Rumble 112 cabinets. $1,000. Order now while you can get a decent discount. @bdplaid and @honeyiscool can give you the lowdown. I run a V2 Rumble 350 head and a pair of V2 Rumble 112 Neos. Another option if you don't need the wattage of the 500 is to get a Rumble 200 head and either 1 or 2 of the Rumble 112 cabs.
 
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A 500 combo is a punch factory. especially if it's paired with an external cab. Occasionaly I use my combo with a GK 115 NEO. On the other hand, a 500 head with a pair of 12s is similarly punchy, but has a different kind of midrange. Overall i think the 12s are tighter, the combo/ext speaker a little deeper and boomier. if you buy the head you can choose from any of these configs. If the 210 cabs had been available when I bought my combo, I'd have passed on the combo and bought a head and 210 cab, and the two 112s as well. ultimate flexibility.
 
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subsonicgroover said:
After injuring myself carting my 78 pound Ashdown combo up and down stairs of various venues, I recently bought a Rumble 500 combo. How can something so light be so loud? I used my 15 inch extension cab last with it last week for an outdoor xmas event and made my body vibrate with the power it produced. Please put me down as a member of the Rumble Club and give me a number. Thanks!
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My 500 head and two 112s were vibrating the concrete I was standing on at a recent gig.
 
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I'm really looking to get an easy to move /quick to set up combo, as I am covered in the "head and punchy cab with lots of volume" department with my MB500 and SWR 8x8. :D Honestly, I might just be best off simply adding the 100 combo to my existing stable of amps. So easy to toss around! (Especially compared to my SWR Super Redhead) And, I wouldn't feel the need to replace or sell off anything. Oooohh GAS I love and hate you!
 
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Scatabrain said:
That's an amazing pic.

I just read that the old coiled cables had a high capacitance (not resistance). That affected the tone. Likely these newer cables do not have that problem.

However, it is very easy to imagine their super power to grab anything on stage in their reach - and more importantly they sometimes pop out due to the increased tension and fly across the stage.

I already have dexterity issues on stage. I don't need help being a threat to the stuff around me. I once had a guitarist whisper in my ear in the middle of a song that if I moved into his space again he was going to kick me off the stage (in a literal way). It was surprising and kind of funny because he really meant it. Miss those days.

That's it - the cable must go. No joking, if anyone wants it PM me a mailing address.
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actually, it's capacitance we're talking about, and it doesn't affect low end, but rather high end - the greater the capacitance in a cable that is attached to passive electronics, the greater the effect on the resonant peak of the pickup. In effect, the sound is duller and sounds like the high end is rolled off. The lower the capacitance, the better. This does not affect active systems in a meaningful (audible) way because they are (usually) buffered.

I'm not sure we heard what any of the old cables did because we were playing through cabs with no tweeter and very limited high range - maybe 5K, tops. and that's a big maybe.

They still make coiled cables, but they seem to be better.

I just bought a Shure wireless system which avoids all that nonsense, and sounds truly great. I have a coupe of reasons why:

As I have aged, I have become clumsy. I've nearly fallen onstage tripping over cords. Last cable I tripped over broke. also, I work in Florida where it rains a lot, and the damned bandleader will actually stand in water and play. I won't, but water near where we play has been an issue on many gigs, so I went wireless. I have been bitten by electricity badly in the past, so I'm not playing with it, since it is clearly not playing with me.
 
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Bufalo said:
I'm really looking to get an easy to move /quick to set up combo, as I am covered in the "head and punchy cab with lots of volume" department with my MB500 and SWR 8x8. :D Honestly, I might just be best off simply adding the 100 combo to my existing stable of amps. So easy to toss around! (Especially compared to my SWR Super Redhead) And, I wouldn't feel the need to replace or sell off anything. Oooohh GAS I love and hate you!
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I have an MB800 and the Rumble 500 is very nearly as loud. IOW, the Rumble 500 is the loudest 500 watt amp I've ever seen. My Rumble equipment put everything else on the shelf, including the MB800 and MarkBass LM800. so much so that I sold off my 410 cabs in favor of the 500 combo or 500 head and single 112s.

I still am amazed with the volume this 500 head puts out while retaining a good, thick tone.
 
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